Why not?

Yes, exactly! I mean, look at this: "Our goal is to create the best experiences for our consumers and the best platforms for our customers." WTF is that crap? Why are they even bothered to be quoted. Why can't they just say it like it is, "we lose money and this can't continue".

Better battery capacity... But wouldn't bluetooth transmission consume more power than what is earnt from a slightly bigger battery? Or would that even out with not having to do the D/A conversion inside the phone?

This. It has been a feature at least from Android 4 that applications can be "disabled", something that in practical terms means "uninstall - just leave files on system". On older phones with a very limited internal storage it sucks that you can't free up their valuable space, but at least the apps are neutralized.

That's an illusion, unless you design your own hardware and the system that runs on it.

I believe Kdenlive is spot on that middle ground. Complex enough for quite advanced editing (it's deeper than the impression that first meets the eye), still simple enough to get started on. And according to my recent experience (Kdenlive Version 0.9.10 on Ubunbtu 14.10) it's runs well now (as opposed to last time I tried it some years ago, that was crash galore).

Sure - most AAA games are not on Linux today. That goes without saying. Most mainstream engines are just now starting to support Linux. SteamOS is not yet released for the general public. Linux users on the Steam network is less than 2% of the total user base. I mean, come on - what do you expect. But the race has barely begun yett

Valve is indeed doing something about it, and we should be happy it's exactly Valve who has picked up the task to do this. They got a track record for keeping a steady course with a long perspective on things.

The world is a restless place - and the internet world particularly so. But one should now remember that it's not more than a year ago the Steam client arrived on Linux, and from then until now it's become an *amazing* catalogue of games available for Linux.

The next chapter, and the grand test, is when SteamOS goes out of beta and into production. That's when we all got a reason to bite our nails and hope for the best. But until then there are every reason to celebrate where we have gotten so far.

Please /., gimme a handful of points to share. I need to throw some at this guy. More often than not, what's found behind a fantastic headlines are usually so much more sober that it becomes almost the opposite of what the headliner claims.

To be fair, for a good many that's close to the very definition of an "optimistic vision".

This. I've *always* used ASUS motherboards on my Linux desktop computers since what feels like the dawn of time, and never had problems with any of them except for one, but that was not due to OS but the CPU and was later fixed with bios update.

Aha - but then the topic here is the Origin service and not DRM per se. Still, there *are* many out there who express the opinion of the above posters in this thread - and I genuinely wonder why.

Dare I ask why "DRM is intolerable to anyone with a brain"? It's a popular opinion, but I have always failed to see why. As a legal gamer who pay for my games I experience no problems with services like Steam whatsoever. In fact I find the service to be of great value. I never have to worry about keeping/maintaining physical discs for later install, no worries about media format changing or anything like that. I got my Steam account, and thus all my games available for all my PCs I've ever bought and ever will buy. Period. How can this be a bad thing?

"[...] it allows for unified memory architectures and eventually cache coherency"

Isn't this more or less precisely how the PS4 is designed? If my memory(!) servers me correctly I'd call this a pretty good design move by Sony, something that should potentially bode well for the longevity of that console, once the games are designed for this type of architecture.

*rimshot* If I had some votes available I'd slap'em all on your post for "funny". :)